Netflix Downloads These days, when it comes to my choices for evening entertainment, its all about the streaming services – Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, iTunes, etc. I personally use the first three in that list regularly on my smart TV. The ability to watch the […]
I’m a photography buff and while I don’t take a ton of pictures on my phone, (mostly because my HTC One M9 has a mediocre camera), I can certainly appreciate a camera phone’s use when you’re in a pinch and without a real camera. The good
I make a lot of appointments on my calendar and I realized soon enough that color coding them makes them easier to identify at a glance. In Outlook, this is done quickly using categories and you can even do it automatically. Assigning a Category to an
Yep, Windows 10 takes some getting used to and while Microsoft is big on having you use their Tile View, I’m still looking to my Desktop to provide the best shortcuts. Creating shortcuts manually isn’t hard in Windows 10, but the fastest way I’ve found to dump
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Change Your Auto-Recover Settings in Office Programs When you’re creating a document and your computer crashes for any number of reasons, you have to appreciate the Auto-recover feature in Microsoft (MS) Word and other Office programs. This feature works in the background to automatically save
Color Picking Tools I started needing a color picker when I started using WordPress to develop my department’s website. I needed, at various times, to do the following: Match the color of my organization’s logo Find and use a color that wasn’t immediately available in
As an X-Files fan from the very beginning, it was a complete treat to watch the recently revived six-episode event of one of the best sci-fi series ever. There was just so much to love: the chemistry between the two FBI agents – one a
Yeah, that’s the news floating around town. Time Warner Cable (TWC) may buy a 25% stake in Hulu. Before I rant on that, here’s my back story: I’ve had TWC for almost twenty years now. They are pretty much the only game in town where
A friend of mine recently told me about online text messaging – sending and receiving texts using your phone company’s website. At first I thought, why in the Heck would I want/need to do that? Well, a case in point came up today and I’m
Some of us let our phones, laptops and tablets update automatically and some of us don’t. I used to be in the latter because I didn’t want miscellaneous crap being installed on my machines. For my home laptop, this sometimes meant missing out on important updates
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We all create images with our cellphones and our cameras and then proceed to slap them places on the internet or send them to people via email. Sometimes we’d like to touch those pictures up a bit or crop them; more often then not we should
I’m a list maker. I may not be a mover or a shaker but, Dang it, I always have things to do and I like making To-Do lists (I may not even complete all those tasks, but that’s another story!). While I don’t mind using
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I’m a fan of Twitter. I like to tweet about a thing I’m passionate about and that generally includes a slew of TV shows – that’s my pop culture addiction; I also enjoy browsing tweets in my spare time. Some tweets are like personal license
As a creative writer wannabe with many writer pals, I am often asked to read others’ work. In the past I used to lament about all the trees we were murdering as we printed out gobs of copies to share in writing groups. Then I
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